Uber

Software Engineer Interview Experience

November 5, 2015

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I received a phone call from NY.

His accent was too thick for me to easily understand. He was polite and pulled Java questions off the internet, I believe. The questions were posted to the shared web editor/compiler, Code Pair.

Questions

/* Some examples:

isMatch("aa", "a") ? false isMatch("aa", "aa") ? true isMatch("aaa", "aa") ? false isMatch("aa", "a*") ? true isMatch("aa", ".") ? true isMatch("ab", ".") ? true isMatch("aab", "cab") ? true

Write isMatch() */

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 373 interview experiences for the Uber Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

19%

Pass Rate

Uber's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive48%

Neutral24%

Negative28%

Candidates reported having good feelings for Uber's Software Engineer interview process in United States.

Uber Work Experiences

A good place to work

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Hyderābād, Telangana, India

Pros: Good culture, good perks, good work.

Cons: WLB depends on the team; it can get bad.

A good place to work

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Hyderābād, Telangana, India

Pros: Good culture, good perks, good work.

Cons: WLB depends on the team; it can get bad.

Excellent

Software Engineer • Current Employee

São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

December 28, 2021

Pros: Working at Uber speaks for itself, as here you have the opportunity to work on projects with direct impact on millions of people worldwide. The nature of the challenges is at a level I had never seen before, which makes you evolve and grow as a professional and as a person. For me, this is one of the biggest benefits of working here. Not to mention that I have the opportunity to work with people of a very advanced technical level, from various parts of the world, from various cultures. Salaries and benefits go far beyond the average.

Cons: The only negative point I've seen so far was the possibility of having on-call shifts, which can demand extra effort and time. However, the interval between on-call shifts tends to be long, not impacting the experience as a whole.

Software Engineer • Current Employee

São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

December 28, 2021

Pros: Working at Uber speaks for itself, as here you have the opportunity to work on projects with direct impact on millions of people worldwide. The nature of the challenges is at a level I had never seen before, which makes you evolve and grow as a professional and as a person. For me, this is one of the biggest benefits of working here. Not to mention that I have the opportunity to work with people of a very advanced technical level, from various parts of the world, from various cultures. Salaries and benefits go far beyond the average.

Cons: The only negative point I've seen so far was the possibility of having on-call shifts, which can demand extra effort and time. However, the interval between on-call shifts tends to be long, not impacting the experience as a whole.

Good Pace, Inexperienced Management

Software Engineer • Former Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

Pros: Great pace of work. Awesome coworkers. Mid-tier pay.

Cons: Management needs to be more tenured; they are pretty underexperienced.

Good Pace, Inexperienced Management

Software Engineer • Former Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

Pros: Great pace of work. Awesome coworkers. Mid-tier pay.

Cons: Management needs to be more tenured; they are pretty underexperienced.

A good place to work

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Hyderābād, Telangana, India

Pros: Good culture, good perks, good work.

Cons: WLB depends on the team; it can get bad.

4.0
A good place to work
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Hyderābād, Telangana, India
March 23, 2023
Pros: Good culture, good perks, good work.
Cons: WLB depends on the team; it can get bad.

Excellent

Software Engineer • Current Employee

São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

December 28, 2021

Pros: Working at Uber speaks for itself, as here you have the opportunity to work on projects with direct impact on millions of people worldwide. The nature of the challenges is at a level I had never seen before, which makes you evolve and grow as a professional and as a person. For me, this is one of the biggest benefits of working here. Not to mention that I have the opportunity to work with people of a very advanced technical level, from various parts of the world, from various cultures. Salaries and benefits go far beyond the average.

Cons: The only negative point I've seen so far was the possibility of having on-call shifts, which can demand extra effort and time. However, the interval between on-call shifts tends to be long, not impacting the experience as a whole.

5.0
Excellent
Software Engineer • Current Employee
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
December 28, 2021
Pros: Working at Uber speaks for itself, as here you have the opportunity to work on projects with direct impact on millions of people worldwide. The nature of the challenges is at a level I had never seen before, which makes you evolve and grow as a professional and as a person. For me, this is one of the biggest benefits of working here. Not to mention that I have the opportunity to work with people of a very advanced technical level, from various parts of the world, from various cultures. Salaries and benefits go far beyond the average.
Cons: The only negative point I've seen so far was the possibility of having on-call shifts, which can demand extra effort and time. However, the interval between on-call shifts tends to be long, not impacting the experience as a whole.

Good Pace, Inexperienced Management

Software Engineer • Former Employee

San Francisco, California, United States

Pros: Great pace of work. Awesome coworkers. Mid-tier pay.

Cons: Management needs to be more tenured; they are pretty underexperienced.

4.0
Good Pace, Inexperienced Management
Software Engineer • Former Employee
San Francisco, California, United States
June 19, 2018
Pros: Great pace of work. Awesome coworkers. Mid-tier pay.
Cons: Management needs to be more tenured; they are pretty underexperienced.

Uber Interview Questions

Bus Routes

Imagine you're planning a trip using a network of bus routes. Given a set of routes and start/end locations, find the fewest number of buses you must take to reach your destination.

Alien Dictionary

You are given a sorted list of words from an alien language and need to deduce the order of the letters in that language. Determine the alien alphabet order based on the given word sequence.

GraphsArraysTopological Sort

Number of Islands II

Imagine an empty grid that represents the sea. You are given a sequence of coordinates to add land (islands) to the grid one by one. Determine the number of islands after each addition.

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